"Chairman of the National Defense Council of East Germany" . "East German politician" . . . "1994Z"^^ . . "General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany" . . . . "Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic" . . . . . "1912Z"^^ . "1912-08-25Z"^^ . "1994-05-29Z"^^ . "1971-05-03Z"^^ . . . . "Erich Honecker (German: [\u02C8e\u02D0\u0281\u026A\u00E7 \u02C8h\u0254n\u025Bk\u0250]; 25 August 1912 \u2013 29 May 1994) was a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until the weeks preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989."@en . . "1989-10-18Z"^^ . "Honecker, Erich"@en . "Erich Honecker"@en . "1976-10-29Z"^^ .